Bitcoin Core Development Status Report #2

Since my last status update the core development team has continued to make steady progress. We have no spectacular new world-changing features to announce, but that should be expected– in my experience, the best way to be successful is to try to make steady progress towards your goals every day. But expect that reaching your goals almost always takes longer than you expect, because you always run into unexpected setbacks and detours. It was a pretty good month for making steady progress on the reference code; the only setback was a little time taken to roll out a 0.7.2 minor bug-fix release (release notes and binary downloads at SourceForge ). The core team received a grant of 470 BTC from the Foundation for infrastructure needs over the next year, which we promptly started to spend. The first purchase is a year’s rental of a fairly powerful (six-core, 12GB memory) dedica...